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Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives. Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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Ive seen others share this piece & can see why—its clear & well-reasoned In reading it, I thought to myself: keep fighting Itll be tough, I know many of us are starting this term already tired Even more reason to stay vigilant & civically engaged if we can www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Apple #Maps has now also switched Gulf of Mexico label to Gulf of America

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Who is still working for Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, X? Are these folks cool with what Musk is doing? Because I think I'd be a bit embarrassed and actively looking for a way out. I promise there are better people to work for.

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Elon Musk's DOGE team gained access to NASA today. Musk is the CEO of SpaceX, which is NASA's largest private contractor. This is a MAJOR conflict of interest. Let's talk about it👇

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

Consumers love the #CFPB! source: www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

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@jonathanjackson.house.gov I'm a constituent of yours, do you have a statement about what's happening with #CFPB? #NIH? What specifically are proposing to do about it?

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President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.

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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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The idea of Trump staying another term, beyond the Constitutional limit, is not a joke. That some elected officials are open to changing the Constitution is repulsive. Like many of you, I feel I need to pick my battles. But these are ideas we cannot let take root www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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I tried reaching out to House Speaker Mike Johnson about what Elon Musk is doing in Washington. No joke, here is the email I received from his office in response I assume this is a canned response that was never updated, but it's still very odd

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Dispatch from Silicon Valley: the narrative of "AI as Oracle" is everywhere. Writing in Nature Machine Intelligence, I updated the Delphic maxims to help us cut through the hype: 1. Know thy training data 2. Nothing in excess 3. Certainty brings ruin www.crockettlab.org/s/s42256-024...

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announcing this year's neuroeconomics summer school, this time outside paris. too many great lecturers to list, even too many great organizers (plassmann,glimcher,tymula,kable,me). & you wouldnt believe all the past students and where they are now. sign up: www.insead.edu/events/neuro...

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New paper with Yaxiong Cao, led by Norbert Vanek, Not all verbal labels grease the wheels of odor categories doi.org/10.1017/lang...

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I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!

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@aoc.bsky.social what's the deal with this Musk Takeover that's trending on here? Congress planning on doing something or like nah...? Hoping you might have a primer for us on what's happening and what the view from the legislative branch is

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Call your reps. Stop using X. Divest from Tesla. Musk is running the show. Folks need to #Resist.

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5calls.org gives easy access to phone numbers for Rep & Sen's, plus sample script for many issues. At a minimum, grants a Sunday mood-boost. (In SoCal, no question re: their position, but can ask them to make a fuss. Schiff & Padilla's DC voicemails full, but Padilla's local office took voicemails)

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 25 days ago • 231 comments

I'd like to see new Democratic leadership in the Senate @schumer.senate.gov has achieved some remarkable things, but I'm not feeling great about his ability to take on the current admin Hoping we see more of @amyklobuchar.com @warren.senate.gov @corybooker.com

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New WP! The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/

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ℹ️ Note: The website of USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, has been made unavailable globally with the DNS server issuing NXDOMAIN; the incident comes amid reports that the new administration intends to move the institution under the State Department

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It probably goes without saying for most of you who follow me, but the extent to which the private sector relies on open government datasets is massive. Limiting access to data or taking data offline would have huge consequences for everyone from startups to large corporations.

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For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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If this turns out to be true, it'll be a silver lining in all of this Unfortunately, I think Washington and right-wing media will spin it (and maybe truly perceive it) as signs we haven't gone far enough or it's just remnants of previous bad policy And we'll all continue believing what we want

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The crash in DC highlights the dangers of a push for efficiency-by-austerity, because it shows that much of what gets misperceived as government "inefficiency" is just the result of chronic underinvestment and neglect.

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If you'll be in DC on Monday, I'd love to see you at Brookings, where I'll be a panel discussant on a new report from the State of the Nation Project, of which I was a co-author, in which we provide a critical analysis of the US’ status on key societal measures. www.brookings.edu/events/the-s...

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Trump says he’s sending water to LA. It’s actually going to megafarms. grist.org/politics/tru... #California #Water #Climate #Trump

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Jon & Gov. Chris Christie discuss DEI. Listen to the full discussion for more. #TheWeeklyShow

submitted 27 days ago • 52 comments

Coincidentally, my spending on Amazon has ramped…way down.

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Maybe? 🤷‍♂️ I remember just a few years ago where "everything is going to be voice". I worked at a bank then and they were convinced the future of banking was some Siri-like app experience More recently "everything will be metaverse" Im not so sure

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Senator Tammy Duckworth (IL) pointing out how confirmingPete Hegseth for Sec of Defense very much flies in the face of a chest thumping, banner waving "pro-meritocracy" administration The guy is not the best, most qualified or most deserving. Same for RFK btw

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New paper with Devin Pope and Carla Colina: in a large US sample, we find that ~half of women discontinue antidepressants during pregnancy without substitution to psychotherapy, suggesting a large gap in women's mental health care during a critical period. ps petition for Devin to join bluesky!

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A new day dawns: lifecyclejournal.org

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Unfortunately, much of the coverage on DeepSeek and R1 is, frankly, bad. The stories tend to follow conventional narratives and miss the point. Instead, I recommend the following three things to read. One, Ben Thompson's DeepSeek FAQ. stratechery.com/2025/deepsee... (cont)

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Are you running AB testing studies on Facebook or Google? Or reviewing papers using them? Check out our open access paper, On the Persistent Mischaracterization of Google and Facebook A/B Tests: How to Conduct and Report Online Platform Studies at doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... @boegershausen.bsky.social

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Hi Everyone! We're hosting our Wharton AI and the Future of Work Conference on 5/21-22. Last year was a great event with some of the top papers on AI and work. Paper submission deadline is 3/3. Come join us! Submit papers here: forms.gle/ozJ5xEaktXDE...

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I'm glad this article is bringing attention to this issue Though, as I read it I couldn't help thinking "what is AI replacing? Humans?" Take this paragraph, i thought, "can we reliably or explain humans' behaviors? Humans too make stuff up, misremember, have biased reasoning, etc"

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Which scientific results should be replicated? Our new PNAS suggests the decision depends on whether you subscribe to “the book of truth” or “book of conversation” @pnas.org @clintin.bsky.social

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People often claim they know when ChatGPT wrote something, but are they as accurate as they think? Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯

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Just called my two senators to urge them to vote against confirming RFK Jr. for Sec. of HHS due to his lack of qualifications & his dangerous & unscientific views on vaccination. If you agree, please do same with your senators, even if, like mine, they are Democrats. This is really important.

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🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨 Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong! We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps: i) want content moderation ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers thehill.com/opinion/tech...

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Not a lawyer, but seeing lots of "THIS IS ILLEGAL / THEY CANT DO THIS" posts in response to things that were in fact just done Im guessing the procedure is take it to court, but that can take time right? What happens in interim? Also, "illegal" things can become "legal" through court ruling right?

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